Awards and Patents

Award Type
Award Type Title Recipient(s) Year
external AMS Fellow John McCarthy 2000
external AMS Fellow James Wilson 2000
external U.S. Government Technology Leadership Award Finalist Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) 2000
internal Outstanding Publication Award (Winner) Roy Rasmussen, Jothiram Vivekanandan, and Jeff Cole. Co-authors included: M. Kuperman (United Airlines, San Francisco, CA), Barry Myers (Transport Canada, Montreal, Quebec), and Charles Masters (FAA, Atlantic City, NJ).
2000
internal Scientific and Technical Advancement (Nominee) Peter Neilley, Bill Myers, Missy Petty, Gerry Wiener, Greg Thompson, Shel Dalton, and Greg Young 2000
patent Enhanced Microburst Detection System Eugene David Albo 1999
patent Method Of Moment Estimation and Feature For Devices Which Measure Spectra As a Function of Range or Time (NIMA) Lawrence B. Cornman, Corinne Sue Morse, Robert Kent Goodrich 1999
external U.S. Government Technology Leadership Award Weather Support to Deicing Decision Making (WSDDM) Team 1999
internal Scientific and Technical Advancement (Winner) Greg Thompson, Paddy McCarthy, Frank Hage, and Shelly Knight 1999
internal Outstanding Publication Award (Nominee) James Wilson and Daniel Megenhardt 1999
patent Winter Precipitation Measuring System Roy M. Rasmussen 1998
patent Virtual Reality Imaging System with Image Replay William L. Myers 1998
patent Ice Detection Radiometers Jothiram Vivekananadan 1998
patent Frozen Precipitation Accumulation Alert System Roy Martin Rasmussen, Wayne Michael Adams, Jeff Alan Cole, Frank William Hage, Charles Geoffery Wade 1998
external Aviation Week Laurels Award Larry Cornman and Tenny Lindholm 1998
internal Education and Outreach Award (Winner) Kevin Petty (ASP and RAL). Co-winners included Charlie Knight (ESSL/MMM) and Raj Pandya (ASP and ESSL/MMM). 1998
patent Microburst Detection System - Formerly Known as Fuzzy Logic Eugene David Albo, Robert Kent Goodrich 1997
internal Outstanding Publication Award (Nominee) Roy Rasmussen, Ben Bernstein, and Greg Stossmeister. Co-nominees and co-authors included Masataka Murakami (Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan), Jon Reisner (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and Boba Stankov (NOAA).
1997
internal Outstanding Publication Award (Nominee) Larry Cornman, Gary Cunning, and Corinne Morse (RAL) 1997
internal Scientific and Technical Advancement Award (Nominee) Rachel Ames, Jeff Cole, Frank Hage, Tres Hofmeister, Nancy Rehak, and Ren Tescher (RAL) 1997
patent Virtual Reality Imaging System William L. Myers 1996
internal Technical Support Award (Nominee) Jeff Cole (RAP) 1996
internal Outstanding Publication Award (Nominee) James Wilson, Brant Foote, Andrew Crooke, James Fankhauser, Charles Wade, John Tuttle, Cynthia Mueller, and Steven Krueger (RAP) 1995
patent Low-Level Wind-Shear Alert System (Microburst Shape Generation) Lawrence B. Cornman 1994
patent Low-Level Wind-Shear Alert System (Improved Shape Generation) Lawrence B. Cornman 1994